Ephesus and went to Troas ; and the balance of probability is that such a visit was made, probably in March, 56 (as soon as the sailing season began), by ship from Philippi. The paragraph, XX, 1-4, is confessedly obscure and badly expressed ; and it is probable that, if the book had been carried to its final stage by the author, both v. 4 would have been better expressed, and something would have been added between w. 1 and 2.
8. P. 341. Mr. Emslie Smith, Aberdeen, sends me a valuable note, the result of personal in- spection of St. Paul's Bay, in which he completely clears up the difficulty which I had to leave. It will, I hope, form the subject of an early article in the Expositor.
9. P. 389, note 2. With the words of Eusebius compare the exactly parallel expression of Aristides, Se^/aos roiv (Wo Trjs avw6ev <&pvyias (Vol. I, p. 505, ed. Dind.), which means that this Roman officer belonged to a Jewish family connected with Upper Phrygia (and also, as we know from other sources, with Ancyra in Galatia), but certainly does not im- ply that he was Phrygian by birth or training. It
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is practically certain that a Roman consul, with a career like that of Severus, must, at the period when he flourished, have been educated nearer to Rome, and probably in the metropolis. The scion of a Phrygian family, growing up amid Phrygian sur- roundings in the early part of the second century, would not have been admitted to the Roman senatorial career, as Severus was in his youth. His family, while retaining its Phrygian connexion, had settled amid strictly Roman surroundings ; and its wealth and influence procured for the heir immediate entry into the highest career open to a Roman. The quotation from Aristides shows that the inter- pretation of Eusebius's expression given on p. 389 is on the right lines. The history of Severus's family in Asia Minor is sketched in Cities and Bishoprics of Phrygia, Pt. II, p. 649 f.